Title:
French literature : a very short introduction / John D. Lyons.
Author:
Lyons, John D., 1946-
Publication Information:
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number:
PQ103 .L96 2010
ISBN:
9780199568727
Series:
Very short introductions ; 230
Very short introductions ; 230.
Physical Description:
xii, 137 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Meeting French literature -- Saints, werewolves, knights, and a poète maudit : allegiance and character in the Middle Ages -- The last Roman, 'cannibals', giants, and heroines of modern life : antiquity and renewal -- Society and its demands -- Nature and its possibilities -- Around the Revolution -- The hunchback, the housewife, and the flâneur -- From Marcel to Rrose Selavy -- The self-centred consciousness -- French-speaking heroes without borders?
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